Metal bridges as barriers

Orycteropus · 23 Mar 2010

There are many areas in the park with free-ranging primates. Most of the primates exhibits surrounded by water-moats. The visitors can enter and leave the exhibits via this type of bridges which stopping the monkeys.

Apenheul, 29th August 2009

KEEPER · 23 Mar 2010

Yes, in Bioparc Valencia this type of bridges seems very effective too for to contain the lemurs in his walk trough island.

Zooplantman · 23 Mar 2010

I've seen similar in cattle pastures to keep the cows in but allow vehicles to come and go without bothering about a gate.
Given the cable handrails shown here, I assume this would work for some primates but not all.

lintworm · 23 Mar 2010

@Zooplantman, the things they use for cattle are different, this works with electricity. The first time the electricity on the bridge is ON and the monkey/lemurs experience that, so they will never go on the bridge again and the electricity can be turned OFF and the guests can walk over it, without problems.

Zooplantman · 23 Mar 2010

lintworm said:
@Zooplantman, the things they use for cattle are different, this works with electricity. The first time the electricity on the bridge is ON and the monkey/lemurs experience that, so they will never go on the bridge again and the electricity can be turned OFF and the guests can walk over it, without problems.

THANKS! Brilliant (unless someone gets the switch wrong

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Metal bridges as barriers

Orycteropus

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